Massachusetts

Ranking Highlights

2020 RankChange from Baseline
Overall Ranking2+1
Access and Affordability10
Prevention and Treatment7-6
Avoidable Hospital Use and Cost37-8
Healthy Lives2-1
Disparity3+13
Medicaid Expansion (as of Jan. 2018)Yes

Demographics

MassachusettsAverage
Total Population6,832,153322,324,172
Median Household Income$91,179$67,877
Below 200% of Federal Poverty Level (FPL)23%30%
% White Race, Non-Hispanic71%60%
% Black Race, Non-Hispanic7%12%
% Other Race, Non-Hispanic10%9%
% Hispanic Ethnicity12%18%
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Highlights

Top Ranked Indicators

  • Hospital 30-day mortality
  • Children without a medical and dental preventive care visit
  • Adults without all recommended cancer screenings

Bottom Ranked Indicators

  • Hospital 30-day readmission rate age 65 and older
  • Central line-associated blood stream infection (CLABSI)
  • Children who did not receive needed mental health care

Most Improved Indicators

  • Diabetic adults without an annual hemoglobin A1c test
  • Home health patients without improved mobility
  • Potentially avoidable emergency department visits ages 18–64

Indicators That Worsened the Most

  • Drug poisoning deaths
  • Preventable hospitalizations ages 18–64
  • Children who did not receive needed mental health care

Comparison with the U.S. Average

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Estimated Gains Massachusetts Could Expect if Performance Improves to Match Top States

Top State in the U.S.Top State in the New England regionGains for Massachusetts
00more adults and children would be insured
109,37354,686fewer adults would skip needed care because of its cost
00more adults would receive age- and gender-appropriate cancer screenings
2,0832,083more children (ages 19–35 months) would receive all recommended vaccines
91,30022,573fewer employer-insured adults and elderly Medicare beneficiaries would seek care in emergency departments for nonemergent or primary-care-treatable conditions
1870fewer premature deaths (before age 75) would occur from causes that are potentially treatable or preventable with timely and appropriate care

Estimated impact if this state’s performance improved to the rate of two benchmark levels — a national benchmark set at the level of the best-performing state and a regional benchmark set at the level of the top-performing state in region (www.bea.gov: Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, New England, Plains, Rocky Mountains, Southeast, Southwest, West). Benchmark states have an estimated impact of zero (0).